JaxParks and Visit Jacksonville are proud to bring you this geocache as part of the Inaugural Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge! In each JGC Geocache, you will find a stamp attached to the log book. Simply stamp your 2018 Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge Passport in the appropriate space as you visit each geocache. When you have collected 25 of the 30 stamps, you will qualify for the coin! For more information on the JGC Challenge, please visit the Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge website (link shown below) to download the official 2018 JGC Passport, review the rules and learn how to obtain a Geocoin. The website also has a brochure with the details of the JGC Challenge which you might find handy as you explore Jacksonville's great park system and other interesting places on the First Coast.
A-cachin' we will go
To seek a container
Of the unusual kind.
A passerby will be denied
What you hope to find
Because you hold in your hand
The four digit command.
Please leave the cache
All tight and secure
So it's ready and waiting
For the next cacher to procure.
Use the hint to unlock the combination; press the black side button to release the container from the lock. (The lock will remain where it is attached.) Sign the log then return the container to the lock. Press the black side button while closing the container to lock the cache. Please make sure the container is securely locked when you are finished by giving it a tug; it should stay locked.
Park hours are from sunrise to sunset.
Landon Park was named in honor of the John and Mary Landon family who moved to what would become known as San Marco in 1867. Their daughter, Julia, was the teacher for South Jacksonville’s first school, a one-room, one-teacher school house. Her 36 years of service were honored by naming South Jacksonville's first high school in her honor. Built in 1926-27 on the site of her old home about five blocks from this park, Julia Landon College Prepatory is still in use today as a Duval County Middle School. Fittingly for a building in this area, it is constructed of beautiful brick and stonework with lions guarding the entrance and serving as the school's mascot.
Thank you to the volunteer Steward of this cache -- RapidFire6
Click here for more information on the 2018 Jacksonville Geocaching Challenge